The Greatest Genius Alchemist of All Time Want to Retire

"Hmm. For now, as it stands, you need my help, don't you?

"Ah. Again, please, Marie"

The Rafe one lowers his head, so does me and Fee. Then Marie smiles.

"Ha-ha-ha! You think you need my help?

"Of course."

"You think Marie needs your help?

"Of course."

"Good! Good! All right, let's do it! Let's help the Labyrinth attack again!!

"... help me, Marie"

It also seems like Rafe is manipulating Marie, but well... I'm not telling you, a flower would be the one.

"So, can we go back with the metastasis again?

I asked if I could go back by the means that I came here. Of course, it's a question of anticipation that we'll be able to go back. But the reply I got back was the worst I could think of.

"Hmm? That's a one-way street."

"" "What?

The three voices overlap. I mean... do we need to go back from this Far East forest in a normal way? I can use my metastasis... but it's hard to put the four together. Could this... suck, huh?

"The journey is with you, the world is with you. It would be nice for the four of us to travel together! Gahahahaha!!"

……

Me, Rafe, and Fee look down in silence. Yes, this is what Marie is. I needed to get a good grip on that. Yes, this is normal… there is no choice.

"Well, you have no choice. Walk down south and cross the ocean by boat from where"

When I suggest that, everyone will snort at me.

"Gahaha! A trip for the four of us means a heartbeat!!

Marie was the only one who seemed oddly entertained, but the three of us had a bad feeling about it and couldn't help it. They looked at each other with that look on their face.

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"No, the air is good! It's been a long adventure."

"How was it during the Third Labyrinth?

Me and Marie are in the rear now, and Leif and Fee are walking forward. It's a schematic that somehow happened, but I don't hate to talk to Marie, so it's just the right opportunity.

"Because I didn't have time to have fun then. I felt like I was just going to do it lightly. But not now. I've decided to enjoy it since the beginning, so look forward to it! hahahahaha!!

"Oh well."

"So, what do you think?

"You mean the labyrinth?

"Uhm. Labyrinth is a kind of lost-technology. That's for sure. But why was the labyrinth created? It's definitely artificial, too. I'd like to hear El's opinion."

"... something related to magic. A control device, or a shelter where the labyrinth escapes something? But when you think about chimeras, there are still many mysteries."

"Human and spider chimeras......? What a terrible thing to make."

"It's a possible technique as a theory. But alchemy can't make it happen yet. There are too many elements to cross to multiply a person's genetic sequence with that of a spider. When it comes to chimeras, we need to get beyond Maxwell's demons."

"Hmm. Sure it is. I can't do it with alchemy yet. But if it's magic... I think it might be possible."

"Marie hasn't gotten an overview of the magic yet, either?

"I don't know yet. I'm pretty sure the magic is going through the zero mass Acacic Materials... but I can't even understand it"

"... magic. Why alchemy and magic..."

Talking like that, Marie's one runs away laughing.

"Ha ha ha!! Elle, give yourself up for the search for truth too!! haha!!

Marie rushes straight out into the woods, the Rafe one rushes after him. Look at that. The Phee one's coming down on me.

"Elle, are you okay?

"What?

"Aren't you tired of coming this far? Besides, it hasn't been that long..."

"... there's still something on my mind. Sometimes it's not broken. Still, I decided to move on."

"Yes..."

The two of us go on through the woods. Fortunately, we don't need to be in such a hurry because we know where Marie and Leif are. It's also a good time to talk slowly like this with Fee.

"Is Fee good? Come here."

"You say that now? I'm ready. Besides, I'm used to hanging out with Elle."

"It's been a few years since I met Fee. You had a hard time in the beginning."

"Yes! You know how hard I've been!!? But well... that was a good experience, too."

"Really?

"... well. And a labyrinth attack is no honor."

"Honor..."

"Elle doesn't seem to care to say that..."

"I'm just kind of in the middle of something."

"Flow...... right. I'm like that, and I can't tell you about people... but it's for someone."

"I hope so."

When I looked at the sky, there was a clear blue sky everywhere. If you go through these woods, you'll reach the southern city. From there, take the boat and return to the western continent to return to the Fifth Labyrinth. I know how it works. If we had four of us, we could handle it. But what do we see before we attack the labyrinth? Like that labyrinth, something might be waiting for you again.

Still, I had to move on. We can't go back.